Megascans workflows for environment creation in UE5 Early Access 

Quixel is the gift that keeps on giving

That's it. I want Jacob to narrate fairy tales for my kid before bed time.

The amount of work that goes into creating these scans are nothing short of amazing 🤙🏿

This honesty and transparency, being real to the users on eye level, is what sets the epic and quixel team apart from others.

The disclaimer at the end there is humble and really does demonstrate the culture of reactive innovation over burying potential problems.

Guys, I think we would all love separate videos of each of your team members involved in this going through stuff like Lighting setup exploration, In-depth best practice, Art directing etc etc . It would be amazing 🙏

I'm totally in.

have just started this journey and its beyond imagination. Much appreciate the assets from Quixel and the tools of UE5

Been loving the Bridge integration in UE5 - simplifies my workflow so much!

This is amazing ... I've been waiting for this for 40 years! Thanks to the developers! 🙏✋🙏✋

Something that improved my megascans workflow a lot was importing assets into blender and making a completely flat, concave and convex version of my main assets. Quick to do with soft selection and makes it much easier to place onto the shape of my landscape.

Thanks for the amazing work you guys put out. Super inspirational. We understand that new tech comes with challenges to overcome but know that we are grateful for the innovation you provide for our workflows and asset building. It's invaluable.

I love unreal engine and Quixel videos, they're never ending excitement ✨

I am glad you liked it. There will be more.

Great Video Jakob I love what you guys put together and I played around with it a lot 🥰

Amazing! Thank you Quixel.

How could anyone not love Quixel.

Where is my grandma to see all this, fantastic job guys

Great, and thank you all

No doubt, It blows us all away... Speechless...

its just so liberating seeing this being available to filmmakers like me, im horrible at modelling and coding, and im so happy that i dont have to work years and years to learn to be able to create characters and model rocks to make my animations and short films

Whoa when they cut to the read shot of them in the desert I was like oh they modeled them with their cars and shit and then my mind blew when I realized it was a real shot 😂

Thank you for this demonstration of workflow. But what we really need is a tutorial for how to reduce overdraw on Mega-Assemblies.

You guys are killing it!

It's awesome ..Thanks !! For creating something this cool

Incredible. Its very inspiring!

Quixel is amazing

great job guys. It`s awesome!

Quixel n unreal engine is a gift to mankind,,, specially those who see 2099 in 2021.

Didn't know you could convert poly mesh to proc foliage volume - great trick at 7:26

amazing guys. keep up the good work !

Absolutely incredible

You guys are on 🔥

The ultimate workflow is like you pictured here. Drop assets in and build massive worlds right from the content drawer menu. Expanding outward as you go.

It's important to say the whole truth- that cool, joyful creation is just 50% of the process. Rest is a "waste" of time for technical aspects, crashes, improving, testing etc. All creators know that what you see here on the screen is a payoff for the hard work and patient in the earlier stages.

thank you guys

can u please let me know which graphic card this scene used in the video is running on ?

thanks for the insightfull video about it. Incredible demo, do you reccommend using blueprint for assets like you did for the demo in smaller levels as well?

Looking forward to convert my UE4 projects to UE5 in the future when its production ready

😍😍😍😍😍 Great job Jakob!

Can you elaborate on how you proceeded to "reconstruct" the mega assemblies to reduce nanite overdraw? @10:22 Thank you.

Great but I am still waiting for a video covering the modeling tools and workflow for trimming away Nanite overdraw issues as discussed in the Unreal 5 Mega Assemblies video!

That is fantastic, nice and brilliant 👍👍

THREE THUMBS UP TO THE DEVELOPERS TEAM!

Is there a way i can download a whole file of a certain terrain instead of downloading each one individually?

It looks better than outside

Thank you! :)

This is very exciting time for ue5 and unreal engine

hi! Amazing stuff! Is there a way to reuse the old bridge assets with unreal 5? I think its because UE5 downloads UAssets with the new Bridge integration and the old one downloaded folders with textures.

..."enjoy the same childish astonishment as we did"...definitely do....utterly gorgeous!

at 6.15 you have these bigger areas to set as the ground, I cant find them in the QB, was this made for the demo alone ?

I'm curious do we have to wait some app to create(sculpt+transform) meshes with billions of polygons to mix it with megascans in UE5? Nowadays its hardly possible to deal with that numbers becous of slow calculation in any modeling app.

What equipment did you use to scan?? What kind of camera on the drone?

Hi Jacob! Thank you for the overview! Nanite really is incredible! I have a question about mega assemblies: When creating them, did you use instanced meshes, or regular duplicated meshes? I am creating an environment using mega assemblies, but the ones I make bottleneck on draws with just a few of them in. Not nearly as many as you have there in the VOTA project. Thank you and hope to see more videos about nanite in the future! :) great work!

Glorious!

I just came back from Moab, Utah. I take thousands of pictures of references for my indie game.

Thanks for the amazing Video and Photos. What really bugs me though, is the heavy amount of micro stutters. If we only could get rid of micro stutters. Sorry for mentioning that but i am a graphics enthusiast. I try to enjoy those really nice graphics, but these kind of drawbacks bother the eye.

now i want crysis remastered with UE5 lumens and quixel asset :D

Awesome!

This stuff is nothing short of mindblowing. Thank you.

@quixeltools This is lovely, but how to deal with collision for fps game, where player want to walk wherever? I did many tests with this set of assets and always problems.

how did they move seperate clouds in the editor on 7:57

how do you blend the assets together to eliminate seems

EFFICIENCY LADIES AND GENTELMEN EFFICENCY ... YOU PUSHED IT TO THE LIMIT. THANKS FOR MAKING THINGS POSSIBLE...

Unreal Engine 5 is fantastic. Just make easier to disable auto exposure.

Amazing

wooow, impressive ,so real , if you don't how it made, you will think its real .

can you make a full game out of this, quixel? both ue5's tech demo and this look incredible and have an incredible idea!

amazing

Love it

mannnnn I wish I knew how to do this stuff

How long do you think it takes to learn how to do something like this to get unreal engine or whatever and start making places

Does this work with Path Tracing in UE5?

Holy mofo, this is sure next gen, NICE!!!

will it be possible to make plants and trees use nanite in future?

Just bring on!

Dem triangles dough

Please fix the Houdini Plugin. Renderman 24 materials don't load properly.

do u have any site

Imagine halo being made with quixel assets and ue5

What is the plan about vegetation ? Cause its really cool and yu guys rocks but its mostly about rock xS

This isss groundbreakinnnnn

Legends

I have downloaded some of the desert sandstone assets with nanite and they look nothing like what you are showing. Actually the quality is very poor (fuzzy, blochy). I also tried downloading in high quality and found no difference. What am I doing wrong?

👍👍

We still waiting for the trees :(

WOW

One of the benefits of a landscape is its performant collision, so you can have a high number of actors, like an army, travel very well on the terrain. If i would build a map like you did, what do i have to expect for my nav mesh, what if would like to create an rts and need to find a solution for wayfinding. And maybe also a lot of collision. Also the landscape is static, have you experimented with destroyable terrain aswell? Landscape can be altered ingame very well. You could create a game where you can change the height of the landscape on the fly. If my landscape is only made by dozens of objects, it looks not changable at the first glance. yes you can switch it, to different levels. But you cannot alter it. It is probably more a Epic Engine question. You used some object scattering in your scene, i guess you build it on your own did you?

mega-assemblies !!! ftw!!!

I’m new to unreal engine how do I download this

How do I import materials thats a zip file

Thank you epic games

His accent is so perfect it almost feels fake. The voice acting world is missing out.

quixel is the best!!!!

Damn, you cant see if these are photos or CGI anymore!

When can we see this on the PS5?

Omg! Are the artist capturing the scans responsible for that whole "chrome monolith in the desert" thing that happened a couple of years ago?

I was confused which was real and which one was unreal footage 3:00

I hope you guys implement A.I to generate more diverse assets and formations to avoid repetitions.

That UI looks so sexy! - anyone know if its immediateMode?